Now my way of thinking in all this is that Article 3(a) of the RR(FSO) would apply to the school.
And it states that a responsible person means in relation to a workplace, the "employer" and this is clearly not Sunny.
Article 18 states that the responsible person (which to me is clearly not Sunny) must appoint one or more
"competent persons" to assist him in undertaking the preventive and protective measures.
Again, at this time this surely cannot be Sunny.
As I always thought that a competent person should have the necessary training, experience, and knowledge in current fire safety legislation and good practices and realise heir own limitations, to come within that category?
And surely that means more than a 1 day fire risk assessment course, (yes it may give an understanding, but surely not adeqaute to be let loose next day.
Of course no offence to Sunny, but I am sure I am not deemed competent to stand in for Sunny this term( no comments please)
I have recently carried out an audit at a local primary school, really never entered such places in the past, except maybe certain areas for licensing.
And it initially appeared to me that the poor headteacher was given a copy of a FRA, that had been carried out by the council fire advisor, with a load of "significant findings" which were all in the negative, and basically told its now down to you to sort this all out
This included matters relating to means of escape, producing an emeregency plan and fire safety policy, all of which was to me well out of the headteachers remit and control.
The head told me that he and all other heads in our city get an annual budget, each school varying, but his was under £2000, and purely for repair and maintenance, I aksed for what he said things like, decorating the rooms, a new carpet if necessary, repairs in toliets which he said was very common, he even said repairs to the gutters was a sore point, but his budget had nothing to do with fire safety at all, so just to clarify, I asked if an emergency light, or a fire alarm sounder or call point was damaged or it was identified that several fire exit signs were out of date, would any of that come out his budget , and he replied no.
So it was clear that the headteacher was clearly not the "responsible person under your Article 3(a) it was clearly the employer, yes the headteacher was a responsible person in this case, but only to the extent that was under his control.
So I think it is all wrong for Sunny to be tasked with such an important role especially as the admin assistant.
I believe the schoolshould be taking their responsibilities a lot more seriously than that.
Sunny the above is in no way meant to be a slur on your good self, it is of course only my opinion.
And food for thought
